The Witcher Season 2: 10 Things We'd Love To See

3. The Potions

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The potions we saw used against the Striga (we never get names, but game fans will swear to you it was Thunderbolt cut with a little Cat) made for one hell of a cinematic fight. The sight of Geralt with his skin pale, black veins pushed to the surface and pupils inhumanly wide, made us understand why common people view Witchers as monsters. There were moments where he was more frightening than the Striga.

This is the real purpose of potions in the series; they remind us that Witchers, in the end, aren’t human anymore. The state they put a Witcher in leaves no doubt that they are something more than a human being, capable of moving faster and fighting harder than they should be. The healing elixir we see later in the series only highlights this again.

If they decide to focus on the fact that these potions are literally toxic to regular humans, we would be all the more aware of their difference. So, when the bigger and badder confrontations come about, when the truly immense monsters or Vilgefortz show up again, the sight of Geralt chugging his little bottles and turning into something terrifying will make us believe the stakes are high.

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My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.